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[–] thin_privilege 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Fun fact: there's hardly any sugar in fastfood if you don't take their softdrinks in consideration. It's not like huge burgers with buns and mayo don't contain an overabundance of needless calories.

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[–] PleaseDontEatMe 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago  (edited ago)

A quick Google search tells me that there is 6g of added sugar in an average fast food burger. That is still roughly 1/4 and 1/6 of the recommended daily added sugar intake for women and men respectively. 6g of sugar in a burger may sound like 'hardly any sugar', but when your RDI is only 25g and 37.5g for women and men respectively, then it brings into perspective how much is actually added that doesn't need to be there. It may not count for much in terms of calories, but sugar in and of itself is something that needs to be taken in careful moderation. As a society we are being bombarded with stupid amounts of it that our bodies cannot effectively metabolise after a certain point, and the fact that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease affects 25% of Americans is proof of the damage being done by sugar to the body. The fact that there is added sugar at all in a burger is the problem, not the fact that it adds a few extra calories, and considering one of the main reasons sugar is added into foods is because of the addictive nature of it... well, it really just speaks for itself.

Of course, I'm not using sugar as an excuse here for people being fat, nor am I saying that eating sugar in moderation is going to be bad for you, because it's not. It only becomes a problem when it becomes over-consumed. If anything it just further shows how addicted fats are to sugar. From what I have read/heard from people who help others with overcoming sugar addiction, some people literally have to go cold turkey on eating sugar because they cannot control themselves. Like how alcoholics can't drink alcohol after getting clean because the temptation is too strong.

Sorry for the bombardment of information there ^,^" I just read/listen to a lot of nutritional health stuff and I think it's important to put things like that into perspective. :D

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[–] LordoftheBeetus 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The only thing that makes you get fat is too many calories. If you eat a reasonable amount of calories and a fairly varied diet, it is unlikely that you are eating enough sugar to make much of a difference. The issue comes when you eat a diet that is mostly carbs which break down into sugar or, as with 99.99999% of people, you eat too damn much of it. Get in your daily vegetables and protein and you can't possible go over the sugar limit because you won't have the calories left to do it.

Basically it comes down to taking fucking responsibility for yourself and what you put in your body. No one forced you to eat shitty food, you decide to do it. You have no one to blame but yourself if it makes you unhealthy.

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[–] thin_privilege 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yeah that's probably right, the contents don't have sugar in them but they add sugar since people want sweet food.

Sugar is not addictive though. People do like sugar, just like most mammals like sugar, since it provides energy. Something we needed a long time ago running from mammoths and huge tigers. Alcohol addiction is completely different and I don't get why people always compare eating too goddamn much with substance addiction.

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[–] JelDeRebel 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

and hfcs, the cornerstone of american food, is even worse than sugar

High-fructose corn syrup causes characteristics of obesity in rats: increased body weight, body fat and triglyceride levels https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3522469/